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Nothing But Blackened Teeth QUOTES

Nothing But Blackened Teeth QUOTES

1 " But the interior didn't smell like it'd had people here, not for a long, long time, and smelled instead like such old buildings do: green and damp and dark and hungry, hollow as a stomach that'd forgotten what it was like to eat. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

2 " After all, isn't that the foremost commandment in the scripture of horror? They who are queer, deviant, tattooed, tongue-pierced or other must always die first "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

3 " Every religion is a one-way relationship. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

4 " Have you ever cannonballed into a cold lake? The shock of an old memory is kind of like that; every neuron singing a bright hosanna: here we are. You forgot about us, but we didn’t forget about you. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

5 " This is the problem with horror movies: Everyone knows what's coming next but actions have momentum, every decision an equal and justified reaction. Just because you know you should, doesn't mean that you can, stop. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

6 " A decade of friendship teaches you a lot of things: the tics that separate I’m sorry and I’m sorry you caught me, that hangdog expression that is really code for when the other person’s expecting you to fix their mess. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

7 " But it is aways my reflection, the eyes smudged of definition, the mouth blotted in shadow so it looks like there’s nothing but blackened teeth. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

8 " He could have been a somebody but all he ever wanted to be was somebody to someone, a husband, a family man, a dream he’d coddled since he was ten. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

9 " We sagged into ourselves, small talk dispensed like so much recreational Valium. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

10 " I could see why Lin defaulted to wit where he could. Easier to run your mouth, run from the Sisyphean work that was being emotionally open. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

11 " apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

12 " Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

13 " Every religion is a one-way relationship "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

14 " It wasn’t charitable but apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

15 " Compassion, like everything else, can be worn dull by rough use. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

16 " I didn’t know someone else’s pain could have a texture, a bite, a gelatinousness you could hold in your teeth, but I could almost gnaw on Phillip’s dying. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

17 " ...and his kindness had a kind of teeth to it, had subtitles... he said it with so much sympathy too. Too much, in fact, his expression greasy with it. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth

18 " You can’t move forward when someone keeps dragging you back. "

― Cassandra Khaw , Nothing But Blackened Teeth